2021-22 All-NBA picks: Luka Doncic, Jayson Tatum crack First Team; Marcus Smart, Bam Adebayo make All-Defense

You want a tough task? Try picking this year's First Team All-NBA squad with a completely clear conscience. We've never had this many First Team talents in the league at once, and the battle over positioning makes it that much more difficult. 

Sure, Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid are eligible at center and forward because everyone knows they're both deserving of First Team, just as they were last season, but until they actually change the antiquated format to remove position designations entirely (which they absolutely should do), that's a loophole I would suspect a lot of voters won't crawl through, because where does the positional manipulation end?  

Until the arbitrary letters that reside next to players' names on starting-lineup television graphics go away, Jokic and Embiid are centers. For a lot of voters, one is going to fall to the second team. That's just the way it goes. For me, it was Embiid who got the short straw. Jokic is my First Team guy, and he should be the MVP, too, while we're at it. 

Not everyone agrees with me on this, but the majority of my CBS colleagues did, which is reflected in the cumulative vote that resulted in the staff All-NBA picks you'll see below. 

Our All-NBA formula was as follows: Five points for a first-team vote, three points for a second-team vote and one point for a third-team vote. Here is what we came up with. 

All-NBA Teams

First Team	Devin Booker PHO SG	Luka Doncic DAL PG	Jayson Tatum BOS SF	Giannis Antetokounmpo MIL PF	Nikola Jokic DEN C
Second Team	Stephen Curry GS PG	Ja Morant MEM PG	LeBron James LAL SF	Kevin Durant BKN PF	Joel Embiid PHI C
Third Team	Trae Young ATL PG	Chris Paul PHO PG	DeMar DeRozan CHI SF	Pascal Siakam TOR PF	Karl-Anthony Towns MIN C

All-Defensive Teams

First Team	Marcus Smart BOS PG	Mikal Bridges PHO SF	Jaren Jackson Jr. MEM PF	Bam Adebayo MIA C	Rudy Gobert UTA C
Second Team	Jrue Holiday MIL PG	Matisse Thybulle PHI SF	Draymond Green GS PF	Giannis Antetokounmpo MIL PF	Robert Williams III BOS C

All-Rookie Teams

First Team	Jalen Green HOU SG	Cade Cunningham DET SG	Franz Wagner ORL SF	Scottie Barnes TOR PF	Evan Mobley CLE PF
Second Team	Josh Giddey OKC PG	Chris Duarte IND SG	Herbert Jones NO PF	Nah'Shon Hyland DEN PG	Ayo Dosunmu CHI PG